February 2012
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“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more...”
– James Baldwin »chukwuma.  (via tobia)
Feb 19th
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November 2011
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Nov 16th
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October 2011
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Oct 19th
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Marine biologist Rikki Ott speaking at the October 2011 press event/public education panel at the North American premiere of The Big Fix. This film is an official selection of the 22nd Annual New Orleans Film Festival. View the entire set of press conference/panel discussion videos here Videography by Jason Berry (a.k.a. Dambala Ashe)
Oct 19th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 9th
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Oct 7th
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Re: Occupy Wall St →
hoitycoity: shana—-elmsford: rant. possible unfollow bait. whatever. I understand the need for occupy wall street (even if it is the brainchild of fucking adbusters). Yet every time I read an article or see another white person holding a piece of paper bemoaning the cost of education or the cost of living and breathing in America I can’t help but think now you see how the other 30+% of us...
Oct 4th
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Congo: pornography for misanthropes →
fyeahafrica: It is the ‘deadliest war since Adolf Hitler’s armies marched across Europe’. It is the ‘deadliest war since the Holocaust’. It is a place where ‘the savagery is beyond imagination’. It is a place where rape has become ‘a normal part of life’. There is ‘unimaginable brutality’. It is a world where a ‘culture of impunity’ allows men to ‘treat women like dogs’. It is a world swarming...
Oct 2nd
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September 2011
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Sep 29th
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Sep 29th
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Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
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New Orleans, Mon Amour (2008). Watch the whole movie (with commercials) via Hulu Basic.
Sep 27th
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Sep 17th
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motherjones: kateoplis: “No means no. No means no if she’s drunk or sober. No means no if she’s in the dorm room or on the street. No means no even if she said yes first and changed her mind. No means no—no matter what. I’m asking all of you, all of you to help get this message out.” —Joe Biden The video is being released on the 17th anniversary of the passage of his Violence Against Women’s...
Sep 13th
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Sep 13th
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Rising Tide NOLA VI: “Brass Bands Music” panel featuring the members of the To Be Continued Brass Band (08 27 2011).
Sep 8th
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Rising Tide NOLA VI: “Food, Continuity, and Change” panel (08 27 2011).
Sep 8th
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Rising Tide NOLA VI: Richard Campanella keynote on New Orleans geography (08 27 2011).
Sep 8th
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WATCH: "Better this World"  →
Beware of anyone who prefaces even the most innocuous comment with with “Don’t you think…”
Sep 8th
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Sep 5th
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“One of my goals in thinking about redefining the way we view relationships is to...”
–   Dean Spade, For Lovers and Fighters  (via innerfatgirl) A POST FOR NEW ORLEANS DECADENCE WEEKEND 2011
Sep 1st
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August 2011
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Aug 31st
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 RIsing Tide NOLA VI: Dedra Johnson of The G-Bitch Spot accepts the 2011 Ashley Morris Award (08 27 2011).
Aug 30th
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RIsing Tide NOLA VI: Keynote address by Tremé creator David Simon (08 27 2011)
Aug 29th
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RIsing Tide NOLA VI “(Re)Capping the Well” panel on the Deepwater Horizon/BP Oilspill incident and its ongoing aftermath (08 27 2011)
Aug 29th
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RIsing Tide NOLA VI “Social Media, Social Justice” panel (08 27 2011)
Aug 29th
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Aug 29th
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Aug 29th
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RISING TIDE VI NOLA TO FEATURE LIVE VIDEO STREAM...
Members of the New Orleans diaspora and other interested parties are invited to tune in to the live video stream of the main stage of the Sixth Annual Rising Tide conference on the story and future of New Orleans. The live video stream will be available approximately 9 am - 6 pm on Saturday, August 27, 2011 via http://risingtidenola.com/webcast.htm The livestream is available to all at...
Aug 25th
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Candid and fresh Gore Vidal interview with Al Jazeera (08 13 2011)
Aug 24th
July 2011
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souvenirnola: New Orleans in Nine Loops from Candy Chang
Jul 18th
constance | new orleans & beyond: ANTENNA seeks... →
weareconstance: ANTENNA seeks your proposals for IMAGINATIVE REVISIONS to 19th-century and early 20th-century New Orleans Monuments, for a show in Feb 2012, entitled monuMENTAL Description: Does Lee Circle leave you spinning? Beaureguard befuddle you? Feeling jilted by Andrew Jackson? Do you have an…
Jul 6th
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Wow.
Jul 6th
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“The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat...”
– Marilyn Wann, “Fat Studies: An Invitation to Revolution” (via onehundreddollars)
Jul 2nd
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listening to "The What - revolution #2" →
“We can do it if we stay true…” | The What, “Revolution #2” (Protest Records, 2003)
Jul 2nd
June 2011
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Jun 29th
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Danziger Bridge case puts 5 New Orleans cops on... →
“For the New Orleans Police Department, the trial comes at a pivotal point in its history. Four officers have been convicted, and two acquitted, in federal civil rights probes within the past six months.” Good background brief with event infographic and trial scorecard. (nola.com)
Jun 24th
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Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc witnesses demolition of... →
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Jun 19th
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"The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its...
imanilin: -Phillis Wheatley
Jun 19th
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Jun 19th
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Poetry And Pizza: "On Imagination" by Phillis... →
poetryandpizza: Thy various works, imperial queen, we see, How bright their forms! how deck’d with pomp by thee! Thy wond’rous acts in beauteous order stand, And all attest how potent is thine hand. From Helicon’s refulgent heights attend, Ye sacred choir, and my attempts befriend: To tell her glories with a…
Jun 19th
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